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At 20, Lucy Blanc was TikTok famous, earning upwards of £6,000 monthly. By 22, she was living the dream life, working as a journalist in New York City. Now, at 25, she’s given it all up and become one of the top earners on OnlyFans.
To many, the career U-turn seems as though Lucy threw her up-and-coming career away. However, the real reasons behind her decision are actually heartbreaking.
Lucy Blanc is well known to those of us who were chronically online during the pandemic for her comedic skits and impression videos. Like many young people in 2020, Lucy turned to TikTok to produce an income stream and cure boredom in the midst of lockdown. She went on to become one of the lucky few who managed to become TikTok famous.
Speaking to the The Times, Lucy shared how this felt like her first success. Despite being privately educated at a boarding school in Hertfordshire, the typical university pipeline was not for her. She dropped out of her art degree at Loughborough University after just one year, as the stress became to much for her amidst an ADHD diagnosis.
However, in 2020 Lucy quickly found fame on TikTok, going from 25,000 followers to upwards of half a million in a matter of months. Earning a monthly income between £3,000 and £6,000, figures which many 20-year-olds can only dream of.
It was her TikTok fame that resulted in her receiving her dream job offer, working as video producer for a newspaper in New York.
Despite achieving the dream life of living and working in New York by 22, Lucy’s dream quickly turned into a nightmare.
Even though earning the job, moving to America and being quickly promoted was a huge success in itself, Lucy was forced to give it all up.
She explained how her work environment shifted when she received a new boss, expressing that to her, “he was a bully”. In fact, Lucy doubled down on this claim, arguing that such description is actually an “understatement”. The negative shift in the work place environment left Lucy with no other choice but to quit and return to the UK.
It was this decision which resulted in her starting an OnlyFans account.
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